Nuclear Research and consultancy Group

European Radiation Survey Site Execution Manual

Leo van VelzenENVIRONET Kick-off meeting

Vienna 23 – 26 November 2009

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Contents

• Introduction to Nuclear Research and consultancy Group

• Needs

• Offer to the IAEA ENVIRONET Network

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Introduction to NRG

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Introduction to NRG

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Introduction to NRGActivities

R & D-assignments-nuclear power plants-nuclear power plants-fusion reactors-fusion reactors-health physics-health physics-thermo hydraulics-thermo hydraulics-transmutation-transmutation-waste management-waste management-waste characterisation-waste characterisation

-design and operation-design and operation-efficiency performance -efficiency performance -health physics-health physics-radiation and -radiation and environmentenvironment-non-nuclear -non-nuclear applications (e.g. NORM)applications (e.g. NORM)

Services and consultancy

13 M€8 M€(MEA)

14 M€

5 M€

Production of Isotopes-medical-medical-industrial-industrial

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Needs

The Netherlands:• Highly populated;• Highly industrialised;• About 30% is below see level;• High ground water velocity;

Contaminated sites needs to be remediated so that they can be reused for as much purposes as possible, preferable unrestricted reuse.

There is a constant need for new proven/validated remediation techniques.

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Offer: EURSSEM

European Radiation Survey and Site Execution Manual

EURSSEM (1st version) has been established within the 6th EC Framework project “Coordination Network on Decommissioning (CND)”. The CND project officially ended 31 June 2009.

The European Radiation Survey and Site Execution Manual (EURSSEM) has been developed to provide a consistent consensus approach and guidance to conduct all actions at radioactively contaminated and potentially radioactively contaminated sites and/or groundwater up to their release for restricted or unrestricted (re)use.

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Offer: EURSSEM

• Approach:- Service point of view, document free of names/pointers to commercial

organizations, governmental regulations, etc.- Leading strategies, leading practical option(s), etc.; all strategies,

practical options ….. no judging.- Applicable for all stakeholders involved in processes to remediate or

restore radioactively contaminated sites for restricted or unrestricted (re)use.

• Combining (leading) literature:- IAEA; Member states – consensus-- MARSSIM (2002); Regulator/Agencies US- CIRIA Safegrounds Nuclear Industry and Defense sites - UK

Learning Network:- ITRC; Interstate Techn. & Research Council -

US- EPA Environmental Protection Agency – US- Diverse Publications

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM

- Background

- Purpose and scope of EURSSEM

- The EURSSEM approach

- Structure of the manual

- Use of the manual

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM- Context and objectives

- Designing a remediation program for radiological contaminated sites

- Basic considerations about planning for remediation

- Practical implementation of the management and selection of remedial actions

- Stakeholder involvement

- Historical site assessment

- Risk assessment

- Health physics, safety, security and environmental protection plan

- Site characterisation

- Environmental remediation plan

- Waste management and transport plan

- Stewardship

- Record keeping

- Archive for future referencing

- Quality management plan

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM- Introduction

- Definition of key terms adopted in site characterisation

- Design of field-based site characterisations; data quality objective process

- Samples

- Sampling frequencies, locations and patterns

- Non-intrusive methods

- Intrusive methods

- Field survey and laboratory equipment

- Analysis of samples

- Data interpretation and drawing conclusions

- Reporting results

- Common mistakes

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM

- Introduction

- Design of an environmental remediation plan

- Remediation: Planning approaches

- Remediation: Evaluation criteria of approaches and techniques

- Overview of available remediation techniques

- Remediation implementation activities

- Conducting post-remediation activities

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Contents

1 Introduction

2 Development of a strategy, implementation and execution program to remediate radioactively contaminated sites

3 Characterisation of radioactively contaminated sites

4 Environmental remediation of radioactively contaminated sites

5 Stewardship

Offer: EURSSEM

- Introduction

- Components of longterm stewardship

- Management

- Institutional/administrative controls

- Maintenance/long term behaviour of engineering solutions

- Monitoring

- Periodic review

- Removal of restrictions of site access

- Keeping stakeholders involved

- Economic context

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EURSSEM; //www.eurssem.eu/

Partner to the ENVIRONET NetworkPartner to the ENVIRONET Network

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Nuclear Research and consultancy Group

Thank you for your attention.

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